Mike Brooks

London Book Fair, Olympia, from the balcony. Lots of stalls, people and publishers!

#LondonBookFair ahoy. Will be speaking in The Salon at half-two :)

It's fine, I'm sure band practice will wear it off.

I took a quick model-painting break today after completing a couple of tasks, and knocked over my pot of Snakebite Leather.

Anyway, I mopped it up before it could get anywhere important, but now my fingers look like I've rolled my own cigarettes for twenty years.

Look sometimes you just put stuff in the shed to store it for the moment, until you find somewhere better for it, and you... don't.

By which they mean that as soon as your call connects, your eardrums burst.

Shed

I'll take it!

You needn't have panicked :)

I could never really send this to someone because I'm rarely convinced that someone I consider a friend actually considers *me* a friend, as opposed to a vaguely weird acquaintance.

You know the best way to kill AI? Don't use it. Don't buy it. Don't share it. Don't give the people who use it your labour or your money.

On a similar note, I would like a tag team to always beat one person, barring very exceptional shenanigans.

This Is Where The Future Bleeds A thrilling adventure packed with laughs, escapes and kick-ass action, about a smart-talking bunch of rogues and dropouts being thrust into an epic quest to save the future and meddle with the destini...

A FANTASY NOVEL? FOR £6.99?! IN THIS ECONOMY???

YES!

If you'd like to pre-order my upcoming fantasy adventure novel THIS IS WHERE THE FUTURE BLEEDS then you can do so NOW and you can do it HERE and I will love you forever (or at least be positively disposed): forbiddenplanet.com/486220-this-...

Keir Starmer and David Lammy are taking an extraordinarily dangerous gamble with our individual liberty This week, MPs will vote on the second reading of the Courts and Tribunals Bill. Don’t let the anodyne name fool you – this is one of the most revolutionary pieces of legislation in our…

NEW BLOGPOST: Keir Starmer and David Lammy are taking an extraordinarily dangerous gamble with our individual liberty

For any MP unsure of how to vote on the government’s proposals to restrict trial by jury.

Look I’m not saying that everyone should know their own pro wrestling entrance music, but I’m not *not* saying that.

YouTube video by zttrecords Raging Speedhorn - The Gush (Night Time Version)

Some twenty or more years ago I found the answer to the question “what would your entrance music be if you were a pr wrestler?”, and that answer hasn’t changed since: youtu.be/tDjnIgO26XA

Nothing further, Your Honour.

‘Oh Yeah’ by Ash but the title lyrics are sung by Macho Man Randy Savage.

UK arts must not be sacrificed for speculative AI gains, peers say Ministers urged to abandon plans to let tech firms use work of novelists, artists and writers without permission The UK’s creative industries must not be sacrificed in the pursuit of speculative gains in AI technology, a House of Lords committee has warned, as the government prepares to reveal the economic cost of proposals to change copyright rules. A report by peers has urged ministers to develop a licensing regime for the use of creative works in AI products and abandon proposals to let tech firms use the work of novelists, artists, writers and journalists without permission. Continue reading...

UK arts must not be sacrificed for speculative AI gains, peers say

There's something wonderful about holding the book you've worked on for so long - and this one is very special indeed! Many thanks to the team @discoverkelpies.bsky.social for bringing it to life - pre-orders are open now, and it's out on the 19th!

discoverkelpies.co.uk/books/fantas...

As Ted "Theodore" Logan awoke one morning from most heinous dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a non-resplendent bug.

Tazz: Really popping those hips.

Thank you so much!

New blogpost! Guess what it's about! www.mikebrooks.co.uk/2026/03/this...

It's fantasy! We need to get it right, or Karl Urban will have the wrong length hair!

This is a self-contained story! (it's a miracle, I can't normally construct a story in less space than a trilogy)

Much appreciated!

What? Don't know what you mean. There's no post there. I can word.

Pre-orders make authors more popular with publishers, not least because it means they have a better idea of how many copies to print! So please buy if you can (with the acknowledgement that the world is on fire), and share around?

Come for the giant wasps, stay for the sapphic romance.

Very decent of you.